Qualla: RNAD Trecwn https://qualla.com/rnad-trecwn en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/rnad-trecwn-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: RNAD Trecwn https://qualla.com/rnad-trecwn RNAD Trecwn: Introduction https://qualla.com/rnad-trecwn/ Photo credit Voice of Clam, Public domain. Copper does not spark. That single fact dictated the design of one of the strangest railways ever built in Britain. The narrow-gauge line that wound through the Royal Naval Armament Depot at Trecwn had to share its valley with naval mines, depth charges, and, by the height of the Cold War, the warheads for Polaris and Trident missiles. A steel wheel striking a steel rail in the wrong place could end the whole operation in a single flash. So the engineers built the rails out of copper, the wagons with sliding roofs and no side doors, and arranged the entire site to minimize the moment when a human hand had to touch a piece of live ordnance.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/rnad-trecwn-wp/gchr-rnad-trecwn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full RNAD Trecwn: A Valley Chosen for Hiding https://qualla.com/rnad-trecwn/ Photo credit Voice of Clam, Public domain. Trecwn lies three miles south of Fishguard in a steep-sided wooded valley, the kind of place that you could drive past without noticing. That was precisely the point. Construction began in 1938, in the months before the Second World War, with the Royal Navy needing a deep-water A...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/rnad-trecwn-wp/gchr-rnad-trecwn-a-valley-chosen-for-hiding.mp3 0:06 2 full RNAD Trecwn: Fifty-Eight Doors Into the Hill https://qualla.com/rnad-trecwn/ Photo credit Voice of Clam, Public domain. The site's defining feature is a herringbone of cavern entrances cut into the limestone valley sides. Fifty-eight chambers, each roughly 200 feet long, were tunnelled into solid rock to store mines, torpedoes and warheads. Every chamber could be reached three ways: by road for pe...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/rnad-trecwn-wp/gchr-rnad-trecwn-fifty-eight-doors-into-the-hill.mp3 0:06 3 full RNAD Trecwn: Cold War Tempo https://qualla.com/rnad-trecwn/ Photo credit Voice of Clam, Public domain. At its busiest, in the 1970s and 1980s, four hundred people worked at Trecwn. Standard-gauge supply trains ran daily to Fishguard harbour, where the line extended past the ferry terminal and along the breakwater so that munitions could be lifted directly onto Royal Navy ships. Ot...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/rnad-trecwn-wp/gchr-rnad-trecwn-cold-war-tempo.mp3 0:06 4 full RNAD Trecwn: What the Cold War Left https://qualla.com/rnad-trecwn/ Photo credit Voice of Clam, Public domain. Trecwn was placed on care and maintenance in the early 1990s and formally decommissioned in 1992. In 1998 the entire site was sold to an Anglo-Irish consortium called Omega Pacific for £329,000, the price of a modest house in much of Britain. The buyers wanted to use the surface ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/rnad-trecwn-wp/gchr-rnad-trecwn-what-the-cold-war-left.mp3 0:06 5 full RNAD Trecwn: Where the Copper Went https://qualla.com/rnad-trecwn/ Photo credit Voice of Clam, Public domain. The narrow-gauge railway, with its careful copper rails and special enclosed wagons, has been entirely removed. Some of the rolling stock survives. Stock has been transferred to the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, which uses the same 2 ft 6 in gauge, while other items went ...

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